2011/3/21 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com>: > > On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Daniel Stutzbach wrote: > > People love it because it's a very powerful tool. People hate it because it > allows you to shoot yourself in the foot. > > There's a certain irony in this. The original motivation for version > control > was to be a safety rope, to serve as a productivity tool to make sure > that work never got lost. > Now we seem to be advocating a complex, fragile workflow that > is hard to learn, hard to get right, that let's you shoot yourself in > the foot, and that has rebasing/collapsing steps that destroy and > rewrite history (an possibly muck-up your repo if there was an > intervening push). > If we gave-up on the "svnmerge on steroids workflow", > the use of Hg would become dirt simple. I've used it that way > in personal projects for a couple months and it is > remarkably easy, taking only minutes to learn. > It also works with Hg right out of the box; no need > for extensions, customizations, or a slew of advanced Hg > features.
Python, though, is not your run-of-the-mill pet project. There's always going to be a learning curve into its development. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
